Rossi happy to dust off the celebrations after return to form

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If there had been any suspicion that Valentino Rossi’s star was dimming after losing his world title and suffering the longest drought of his MotoGP career, it was banished by an utterly dominant victory in the Spanish Grand Prix and a postrace celebration involving six men dressed as skittles. Bowling people over remains his forte.

The greatest of them all, Giacomo Agostini, was here to witness Rossi’s return and had hugged him and exchanged stories beforehand. The duo’s cavalier ways bridge the generation gap and prove that sport can be fun. That is why John Hopkins, the Suzuki rider, said